biden administration rejected a proposal for free rapid test for the holidays for the president trying to reassure frustrated governors on a video call earlier, but he just wound up blaming them. look, there is no federal solution. it s gets solved at the state level. seeing how tough it was for some folks to get test this weekend shows we have more work to do. when i took office ten months into the pandemic, and even so, we had no, 0, over-the-counter home tests in the united states. we got to work. we crossroad the number of pharmacies offering the free test and now there are more than 20,000 places we can get testing for for free. for over the counter at home tests, as i said, there were none when we took office. none. now we have eight on the market, it s clearly not enough. if we have known, would have gone harder and quicker if we could have. we slept tens of millions of unvaccinated people and we are seeing hospitalizations rides. and even dr. fauci thinks biden fu
are glad for your depth of experience, on wheels like this lawrence because these are tectonic shifts, these are seismic shifts. even though we knew this is what the supreme court was going to do, the reality of the fact that it is happening has got to have everybody in this country thinking about what s next and what freedom actually looks like. ali, i thought i was coming to terms with this when i was working the senate in the 1990s. i expected eventually that there would be the five votes for it, but have to tell, you i was absolutely shocked walking through the building last night holding in my hands a leaked opinion. i had so much trouble believing that this was an actual leaked opinion, since that had never occurred before. but by the time we got on the air after rachael did an hour on it, it was pretty clear. this was the real thing. and so, we went right past that question of, is this the real thing? we don t know if the real thing with the chief justice confirming to
actually looks like. actually looks like. ali, i thought i was coming to terms with this when i was working the senate in the 1990s. i expected eventually that there would be the five votes for it, but have to tell, you i was absolutely shocked walking through the building last night holding in my hands a leaked opinion. i had so much trouble believing that this was an actual leaked opinion, since that had never occurred before. but by the time we got on the air after rachael did an hour on it, it was pretty clear. this was the real thing. and so, we went right past that question of, is this the real thing? we don t know if the real thing with the chief justice confirming today. but we have never been through anything like it. and i m gonna take us through a little bit of the history that joe biden mention today that got us to where we are today. i look forward to it lawrence, thank you, have yourself a great show. thank you. the supreme court is facing a crisis of legiti
we welcome back to our desk, jacob of the nonpartisan race rating and analysis group inside elections. joining us this morning at the start of a very busy month when it comes to mud term primaries. midterm primaries. is that calendar, like it seems like everything else is this elections cycle, has that been impacted by the redistricting process? are we seeing more primaries this month than we usually do for a may? guest: every state determines its own scheduling over the course of the election season when they hold their primaries, when their filing dates are. and in certain instances, the states that haveta scheduled to have the earliest primaries, a state like north carolina, for instance, which is coming up in a few weeks, was originally supposed to hold their primary habout two months earlier. but because of ongoing litigation aboutgo the redistricting process which itself had been delayed because of the reapportionment process, they got pushed back. so, yes, it s a
show on youtube and chris jansing reports starts right now. good day. i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. we are following two massive stories. both with the potential to impact millions of americans. in maryland, the governor says the focus now is on saving lives. could the six people or more missing since the stunning collision and collapse of the francis scott key bridge still be alive? and then the wider logistical and economic impact. 30,000 people used that bridge every day. now that it is gone, what is next for the city and one of the country s biggest ports. plus, it is the biggest abortion-related case since roe. the supreme court hearing arguments today over whether access to the abortion pill should be restricted even in states where abortion is legal. what experts are telling us about which way the justices may be leaning and my conversation with the head of the nonprofit physicians for reproductive health on what this decision c